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A Relationship with the Divine

Develop a relationship with the Divine that you both control and surrender to.

To relate to the Divine, you gotta know what it is!  Since man first spoke we have been trying to define the Divine.  Words just do not cut it.  To know the Divine, God if you like, is a feeling; an overwhelming sense of love and peace and connectedness and oneness.  Hey wait a minute!  Oneness is the entire goal here!!! 

Yes the goal is to live in this feeling of oneness.  The good news is that you don’t have to be there 24/7 to have a relationship with the Divine.  If you have ever felt the presence; if you have ever felt ecstasy at the sight of nature’s beauty; the taste of a perfectly prepared food; the sound of a lover in orgasm or a symphony in full harmony; the feel of a cat purring or a baby moving in the womb; or the smell of a lilac bush in spring, all you need do is allow that emotion to arise from memory in a moment of calm. 

You control this relationship by invoking it, by going into those memories and allowing the emotions to wash over you cleansing you of all worries.  You surrender to it by allowing the memories and the emotions they evoke to wash away the grime of every day life.

This is my favorite part of the Oneness exercises.

When you surrender to that emotion of the presence of the Divine, you know that you are always worthy of love, honor and forgiveness, you know that others are holy and divine too.  The true power in building a relationship with the Divine is that you find it everywhere.

Blessed Be.

Curtis

Faith in Yourself

Set attainable goals that get you to a place of exercising faith in yourself.

Simply put, reaching goals builds confidence.  Without a reason to believe in yourself you can be easily shaken.  A faith built blindly is no faith at all.  Yes there are times when you must make a leap of faith, but those leaps are best taken when you can believe in yourself to handle whatever comes of them.  And that faith in self is best built consciously, one decision at a time and with patient fortitude.

The first goals should be something you already love doing that stretches your experience just a bit.  For example if you love to exercise, determine to increase your stamina or strength by a specific measurable amount in a reasonable time.  Likely you have done this time and again if you’re an exercise fan.  If you love to read, pick a book that you really want to know more about and determine to write a short synopsis of each chapter to increase your depth of comprehension (it can be a paragraph or a page).  Begin your goal setting with things you already are passionate about.

Once you have measurably expanded your faith in doing things you love to a greater degree, then move on to responsibilities that you don’t enjoy but know you must take care of.  Pick one.  It is important to NOT overload yourself with optimism and then let yourself down.  So, let’s say you hate doing dishes and they tend to pile up for a couple of days.  Determine to wash each dish as you use it as much as possible, and when that is not possible (say you are cooking for a large group or a complex recipe) determine that you will have all dishes washed before bed each night for one month.  At the end of the month you may return to old habits; that is not failure that is a true expression of your feelings.  If you set the goal to do it for a month and you did that is a success.

Now that you have done two or three things that increased your faith in yourself as a responsible person expand into things that are totally new to you.  Everybody has curiosities, things they are interested in learning more about but haven’t yet explored them.  Take a few days to make a list of those things.  When you are ready for your next level of self faith pick one.  Take the time to learn more about this interest and to determine just how much you want to know about it.  If you want to know everything about it, then break the learning down to what you can reasonably learn in a month, or a semester and commit yourself to that learning.  Do not commit to the entire thing if it is huge, but to each step of learning.  Always give yourself permission to be flexible and/or to change your mind.

Along the way, you will likely have times where you don’t fulfill your commitment to yourself.  This is where self-forgiveness is absolutely important, without self-forgiveness you will cease all growth and the goal here is growth.

Once you have taken a few steps into learning something new and have fulfilled your commitment to yourself it may be time to consider that leap of faith.  Not because you know it will work out, but because you know you will do what is right and you will have even more faith in yourself.

Growing self-confidence is a never-ending process.  Make sure you keep people around you who can help you to remember your successes, who choose to celebrate you.  Every step of your journey will be easier with those people around.

Forgiveness

Develop a standard by which you earn your own forgiveness.

Despite what society has taught us, forgiveness is not a lofty pseudo-noble gift from on high that’s doled out with an eye dropper at the whim of a laissez-faire, ego-poisoned deity.

Forgiveness is a process.  It is a process that each of us works daily, and it is a process that works easiest when earned, at least in the beginning.  (a) When you utter the phrase “It is what it is” in the face of an undesired outcome and move on without carrying that disappointment as a banner you have practiced forgiveness.  (b) When you tell someone who let you down “I know you didn’t want to let me down, I realize you regret that, I’ll be ok.” And you move through your disappointment determined to continue making your life happen on your terms, you have practiced forgiveness.  (c) When you remove someone from your life (permanently or temporarily) as a result of their destructive intentions that they will not cease; and you consciously heal and let go of the victimhood you could have held yourself back with, you have practiced forgiveness.

Forgiveness is the process of releasing victimhood.  To GIVE your victimhood to a higher power that you may move FORward is to for-give.  The first person you must learn to forgive is yourself; the last person you will learn to forgive without the need to “earn” forgiveness is yourself.  When that cycle is complete you have attained… grasshopper.

Self-trust

Develop a high level of self-trust.

It’s interesting how many ways people do not trust themselves.  We may trust our best friend, or family members, but to risk being wrong; to actually mislead ourselves is a risk we are not willing to take.

You want to protect yourself from being lied to, that is your inner child needing and deserving assurance.  You want to be truthful and accurate in your dealings with others, that is your inner adult needing, and again deserving to feel worthy and respected.  If someone else lies to you, or misleads you then whatever your response to them; be it understanding and forgiveness to bilious vengeance, you can feel that you took care of yourself and you can continue to live with yourself.  If you mislead or lied to someone else, you can respond to their response from a place of righteous indignation or penitent regret and again live with yourself.

But when you have to play both roles, the liar and the betrayed; the negligently misleading and the gullible victim it is many times harder to live with yourself.  Yet when you really look at these relationships deeply you will realize that whenever someone lies to you or misleads you, you are still responsible to accept that untruth or not and so you already have a certain degree of this ‘how do I live with myself’ building up.  This is one of the quietest detriments to self-esteem there is.  The converse is more obviously destructive to self-esteem; to know yourself the liar or to learn you have been the negligent mis-leader is more direct in relation to your self image.

How to create this high level of trust?  The answer is far simpler than the analysis.

Trust begets trustworthy behavior, mis-trust begets betrayal.  Yes there are those who will exploit any relationship they have toward a dishonest end.  You learn not that trusting them makes them honest, but to trust them to be dishonest until they show in their lifestyle that they have truly recognized that they are part of this same world and need to get along with others.  More importantly, you learn that when you trust them to be dishonest you are earning your own trust at the same time.

One of the main ingredients in self-trust is forgiveness.  That is for tomorrow.

Integrity

Develop a high level of integrity that is always open to improvement.

The first step in fully integrating the four bodies, this is the foundation of all personal growth.  Not lying to others is generally easy enough, at least limiting the lies to little white ones, or socially acceptable ways to not answer questions that are nobody’s business in the first place.  Though truly even those will eventually drop by the wayside; the white lie will be replaced with surprisingly compassionate ways to tell the truth you were afraid would hurt someone’s feelings; the “not saying it’s none of your damn business” lie will become a forthright refusal to address the issue or completely ignoring the question from well within your own power.

Most people are already pretty good at drawing those boundaries as it is.  The real challenge is in being honest with yourself.  There are myriad ways to be dishonest with the self.  There is classic denial, usually a symptom of a much larger problem that’s creating a lump under the rug.  There is the coping skill that served in perfection years ago, but now does not apply, yet it has become habit.  And speaking of coping skills, sometimes that coping skill was a lie to begin with but it kept us safe through a troubling time in our lives, so it’s good to remember that even a lie can be a blessing in context.

Now that you are pursuing spiritual self-fulfillment, however, it’s time to take all those untruths out and get to know them. 

Do not do this alone!

Prayer, supportive and loving and honest friends, a really open-minded and open-hearted counselor are really helpful in times like these.  Not just in the beginning either!  I have used counselors off and on for years.  I would not be without friends or prayer, I’d die of loneliness if I tried. 

Final injunction:  do not judge yourself or your untruths.  They served you and you deserve to be happy, even if happiness in denial is all your life could allow at a certain time it kept you going and brought you here.  Bless every experience (this is one place prayer helps!).

Bless you all over the place!

Curtis

ONE

ONE

What do you get when you combine the Physical, Mental, Emotional and Spiritual bodies in balance?  You get a life!  Actually you get much more than just a life.  You get a life of ultimate fulfillment.  You get a life of realized and fresh new potentials.  You grow into the self-awareness that you are ONE.

Ominous word ONE, in its “all-caps” authoritative way.  I imagine James Earl Jones saying it… “ONE”… with a soft tympani roll behind his booming patriarchal voice.

So how do you achieve this state known as “ONE”?  This state of being that defines the individual as an integral part of the all-that-is?  There is much to be done to fully become ONE.

The steps toward ONE, a state of being…

1. Develop a high level of integrity that is always open to improvement.
2. Develop a high level of self-trust.
3. Develop a standard by which you earn your own forgiveness.
4. Set attainable goals that get you to a place of exercising faith in yourself.
5. Develop a relationship with the Divine that you both control and surrender to.

As you consciously reach toward and attain these goals you will begin to create a healthier physical you, a sharper mental you, a more accepting emotional you and a more aware spiritual you. 

The result is unavoidable and ultimately empowering.

The Body Emotional

The Emotional Body

The Emotional body is the bridge; without the emotional body to judge experiences we could not connect our Physical experiences to our Mental processes or our Spiritual stewardship.  It is by emotion that we judge good and bad.  It is by emotion that we know glory and despondence.  It is by emotion that we qualify our very existence and without that measure of quality our lives would be little more than digitized information not fit for a doctoral thesis on underwater basket weaving.

Spirit knows joy, love, peace and a thousand other permutations of these expressions.  Physic knows pain, limitation, relief and a thousand other permutations of these expressions.  Mental knows order, remembrance, chaos and a thousand other permutations of these expressions.

Emotion knows how to blend every possible mix of these expressions and create a new flavor every time.  Emotion is our experiential chef and it cooks on the magnitude of Cordon’ Bleu on steroids!

It is through the Emotional Body that we are making conscious connection to our mental processes and our spiritual awarenesses.  This heightens our physical experience and in turn a heightened physic increases Emotional awareness.  Notice the cycle.  The increase of awareness is how we experience increase of vibration.  Increase of vibration is how we come to integrate our understanding of and experience of our Four Bodies.  We are coming full circle.

Once we get there, what next?

The Spirit Body

The Spiritual Body

You might have expected the Spiritual Body to be last since we are all spiritual beings having a physical experience, but as this sentence hints… there is a method…

The Spiritual Body, the witness, the observer, the steward… these words are synonymous and begin to touch on why we are here in the first place.  For those who need a profound reason to be here I submit that there is nothing more profound than falling in love.  You can fall in love with a lover, of course, and it is a glorious high that if handled with care by both sides can grow into a long term partnering like none other and can even bring about the blessing of more confused people seeking their purposes in life.

Don’t discount falling in love with the smell of a lilac bush in full bloom.  Don’t discount falling in love with a Mozart Concerto.  And I hope I don’t have to remind you about the power of chocolate. 

The Spiritual Body observes and celebrates these experiences for each ecstasy we feel brings us closer to fully knowing what it is to Be a spiritual being.  Yes we know this already, but do we remember it when we stub our toe?  Or get stung by a bee?  Some do, most don’t.  That is changing.

Did I say “That is changing” again?  What’s going on here?  Physically we experience something that we created Mentally (oh yes you did create that experience!  Get used to it.) and Spiritually we observed and celebrated it.  This process, though only ¾ complete is beginning to be more obvious to our 3D awareness of late.  How?

Tomorrow the Emotional Body

The Mental Body

The Mental Body

Do you know your IQ?  I’m pretty certain mine has 3 digits and I pray it is higher than some of the people I’ve seen in the news lately, but I won’t guarantee that!  I’ve been stupid too… and somehow my 6^th sense tells me there’s a good chance I may be again someday.  This human gig is NOT for sissies!

The Mental Body is not about intelligence, at least not as measured by schools the world over.  The Mental Body, while seeming to be a product of physical brain function, is really an un-definable body.  It is part of the space-in-between that quantum physicists like to talk about.  In fact it is what creates those things that the space IS in between from that space in between.  Confused yet?

Back to when we were seeded on this planet.  Our Physical Bodies gifted us with experience, but without the Mental Body to process, store and permute this information, we were more like rocks.  Sitting there doing our physical thing… end of the story of the rock.  The Mental Body took us from rock-like existence to computer-like existence.  A pretty big leap from where we stand, probably not more than a small step for mankind from the bigger picture side of things.

Another gift of the Mental Body was to be a part of the creation of the Collective Conscious.  Once enough humans had enjoyed enough experiences to start building a network of experiences, the collective conscious was born and awareness began to transcend the individual.  For the millions of years we have been on this planet that collective has been, for the most part, too subtle to know.  That is changing.  More on the change tomorrow when I present…

The Spiritual Body.

The Physical Body

The Physical Body

When humans were seeded onto the earth we were given a 3^rd dimensional light body.  Albeit rather dense to be called light as we commonly think of light, even the physical sciences are coming to understand that everything is made of light and that indeed the ‘speed of light’ is highly variable. 

This specific collection of densities, ever changing, called our Physical Bodies, were designed to create discover and savor physical experience.  Without our Physical Bodies our Mental, Spiritual and Emotional Bodies would be uninformed as to the pain of a broken bone, broken heart or a busted flush; equally they would remain uninformed as to the glory of a sunset, and orgasm or rolling downhill in the grass until we get dizzy and have to sit there until mom or dad comes to pick us up… giggling all the while.

Conventional wisdom states that it is bad to identify as your Physical Self.  I would say if you only identify as your Physical Self you are missing roughly 75% of the experience of self-knowledge.  We all know people who not only limit themselves to identifying as their Physical Bodies, but actually identify themselves as only part of their anatomy!  Let them be a lesson to the rest of us. 

No one in the 3D world can completely comprehend the wholeness of who each of us is, and how that makes us all one.  So, without taking ourselves too seriously, let’s notice the interplay between our Physical oh-so-familiar selves and our three sibling expressions of this same person that we are.  Remember interplay ends with PLAY for a reason.  Have fun!

Tomorrow I go Mental on you!

The Four Bodies

The Four Bodies

Everyone has 4 bodies.  They are, the Physical, the Mental, the Spiritual and the Emotional bodies.  Each contributes to the experience of wholeness.  Briefly, let us explore.

For most of us the Physical Body is the easiest to identify with.  In fact we were designed specifically to identify as physical beings.  Now as we are raising our vibrations more and more of us are awakening to see that our Physical Body is just part of who we are.  Thanks to people like Sigmund Freud we have come to know of our Mental Bodies, and thanks to people like Carl Jung we have come to know of our Spiritual Bodies, and lately with much thanks to people like Candace pert we are coming to know of our Emotional Bodies.

I invite you to contemplate the interactions between these four integral parts of the beautiful whole being that is you.

Tomorrow we begin with the Physical…

Chakra Evolution part 2

Chakra Evolution part 2

In recent months as human and earth vibrations have been increasing at rates never before felt in the 3D world I have been noticing the coming together of the Third Eye Chakra and the Crown Chakra.  This implies a connection increase between the Pituitary and Pineal glands as they are the physical centers of the Third Eye and Crown Chakras respectively.  I expect medical science to acknowledge this in the next few years just as they acknowledged the changes in the Thymus Gland as lightworkers came to know the Heart Chakra.

Everyone is psychic.  If you have a brain you have the potential to read from the collective conscious (it may be possible if you don’t have a brain, but let’s not talk politics).  Now that the Crown Chakra, the point of connection between this 3D world and the 5D world of energy at its most pure, is blending with the Third Eye Chakra, the “switchboard” to the collective conscious; we are growing into an age where communication between the corporeal and the ethereal will become commonplace. 

This indicates a deepening of my purpose.  For the past few years I have come to understand my purpose in this world as seeing the divine in others, and showing it to them.  I am now coming to the awareness that it is also my job to help others open up to their own psychic abilities.

When I am called to do so, I will be offering classes in psychic development.  At this point I am still coming to know just how that will happen.

Tomorrow: a new series; the four bodies.

Evolution of the Chakras part 1

Over the last decade or so, more and more lightworkers are noticing changes in the Chakra system.

The first change I noticed was the awakening to the Spirit Chakra.  Not that it is a “new” chakra, but that our awareness of it is new.  Until we began to awaken to the delineation of 3D understandings of love and Divine 5D understandings of love we saw all love in the Heart Chakra.  This served us well.  But as we prepared to raise our vibrations we found new experiences of love that we could not fathom with our consciousness, a higher love that transcends our egos without judgment, a love that celebrates all that is.  In many that love is a common experience now, but a few short years ago it was a rare experience.

As we grow more and more into our 5D awareness (our spirit bodies) the Spirit Chakra will become more central to our every day lives.  So long as we have physical bodies with 3D awareness I expect the Heart Chakra to still play an important role in our growth and development.

Tomorrow: the blending of Chakras, the Third Eye and the Crown.

The Crown Chakra

Crown Chakra

The Crown Chakra, violet in color, shines from the top of the head outward in a bowl or shallow funnel-like shape.  As it extends its light upward from the body it melds into white light, the blending of all colors of light.  The physical center of the Crown Chakra is the Pineal Gland. 

The Crown Chakra is the veil between the worlds.  It is through the Crown Chakra that you connect with the dead, with those not yet born and with spiritual entities who have never been corporeal.

As I mentioned yesterday the Crown and Third Eye Chakras are now coming together as one Chakra.  Imagine the gifts of connecting your psychic center, the heart of non-physical communication with the door to the other side.

More on that tomorrow.

The Third Eye Chakra

Third Eye Chakra

The home of Intuitive reception is in the Third Eye.  It is located above and between the eyes at the center of the forehead. The energy path of the Third Eye runs through to the back of the head just under the skull at the top of the spinal cord.  It is centered at the Pituitary Gland.    

The Third Eye Chakra is considered to be Indigo in color, though in my experience the Third Eye looks like an Amethyst bed, a field of purple crystals where psychic energy washes through and finds the perfect termination point to connect with.

The Third Eye and the Crown Chakras are beginning to join and become as one.  In some it has already happened, in others it is just beginning.  Tomorrow’s discussion will be about the Crown Chakra and you will begin to see the connection between these two highest Chakras.  After that I will discuss the evolution of Chakras over the past decade and go deeper in to what this combining of Chakras is telling us about our journeys.

Over the next three days this series will conclude with:

Crown Chakra

Chakra Evolution, parts 1 and 2